Found on the ground

Ants rely on a scent trail left by their scouts to guide the colony to food or building material. So when we step into the middle of a train of ants we actually sabotage their trail. We break the scent and delay their path to food or building material.  So we can look at it in two ways

1. That we sabotage and ruin for the ants?

or

2. that we remind the ants that in order to reach a goal, you have to get lost a few times, walk alone a few times, climb hurdles, to again rediscover that they were on the right path all along. And when they get there, then they know that it's not only great to reach the goal, but that the journey there also was an adventure.

Am I Talking about ants only? or people too? I guess nature showed us another lesson in life.